DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don’t come from judges.
Might be a naive question but what prevents instance admins here on Lemmy to also give this information?
Well that is pretty much the reason I moved here.
Fuck spez
Fuck you spez.
On one hand, I’m so glad to be British and not living under Trump’s jurisdiction.
But on the other hand, I don’t think I’m gonna be visiting the USA anytime soon, unless I feel like being detained by ICE or turned away at the border for being critical of the orange man and the Gestapo he’s empowered.
Canadian here. One of my girlfriends lives in Ohio.
She comes to visit us. Not the other way around. Even if this administration burns to the ground, it’s going to take a long time to renew my trust in America to ever step foot in that country again. I used to travel there. I used to deliver there as a truck driver. I spent a lot of time in America.
Not anymore. I’m in my late 30s and I may never visit America ever again after this.
Come get me. I’m waiting.
Im so surprised that the most powerful big tech companies are not there to do the right thing.
Then I’m glad that Reddit permabanned me in the post-Inauguration bloodbath, before ICE spun up and I would have been calling for justice.
BUT, I also had a 12 year account with a million Karma, so I have plenty of juicy anti-MAGA and anti-Trump (I called him HitlerPig for a long time) posts for them to prosecute me for.
So it looks like being a government slave in the world camps is my retirement plan.
Oh, they’re not going to like me at all.
Not quite perma’d but I did get banned from r/technology last night over a banal comment that some power tripping cuck power mod didn’t like and saw as ban-worthy. Not even gonna bother appealing it because I know in true Reddit fashion they’ll respond with a “fuck you” and 28 day modmail mute, then cwy hawassment to the admins if I try to push it any further.
Maybe this is a sign that Reddit truly is turning to shit.
Yea. Reddit so predictable. You used to be able to appeal but now the mods just petty block you instantly.
I’m not making it to the slave camps, and me, my crossbows, and my knives are taking as many of them with me as I can
Slingshots and ball bearings. Or even rocks. David and Goliath time.
And don’t forget your videogame lessons. Pick up any loot your victims drop. Lots of good guns, ammo, and body armor.
Stay in the shadows, brother.
I’m glad I migrated away from Google’s services.
In about 10 years we will be reading articles like “Do you remember Reddit, Meta and Google?”. This shit can only go on for so long before other alternatives present themselves.
Amazon, Microsoft and Google run so much cloud infrastructure that it’s not in the power of ordinary peasants like us to even make a dent in their business. When we use pretty much anything online we’re helping support them. And other corporations have little incentive to leave. Foreign governments are the main organizations that have the power to make an impact on their business.
I wouldn’t count on that. People are too lazy to change.
Hugo Boss agrees.
Google are still a major player because they hold monopolies in several markets. I see them as “too big to fail.”
No other platform does long form user-generated video content like YouTube. The only other smartphone, tablet and smart watch OS that even holds a candle to Android is a walled garden exclusive to the Apple ecosystem. Even in search they hold a near-total monopoly with around 85 - 95% of all search traffic going through them (depending on which source you ask and if they consider ChatGPT a search engine.) Even Microsoft offering gift card rewards for using Bing search wasn’t enough to convince people to try them.
Even in markets where they don’t have a monopoly… GMail is the most popular free email service, Fiber has silently grown to have service in 19 US states despite significant pushback and lobbying from rival internet service providers, they’re the only viable alternative to Microsoft in the office productivity software market, virtually every major web browser except for Firefox is built on Chromium, even Waymo is the only (non-Chinese) robotaxi service currently in operation although that market is potentially going to blow up.
Even in the generative AI market they’re not only whooping OpenAI’s and Microsoft’s asses, but can reliably hedge their bets on AI if the bubble does start burst.
I generally agree with you, with 2 caveats:
No other platform does long form user-generated video content like YouTube.
Dailymotion does it too.
Reproducing YouTube’s features isn’t the hardest. Getting its network effect is.
Even in the generative AI market they’re not only whooping OpenAI’s and Microsoft’s asses
I was barely able to remember the name of Google’s gen AI. It’s not really relevant in the corporate world. I don’t think they are close to whooping OpenAI and Microsoft’s asses.
Dailymotion does it too.
I forgot Dailymotion existed. Clicked on there, it’s just news sites and games journalists on the front page now. You can’t see view counts or any comments, and the site honestly feels like a husk of its former self.
I was barely able to remember the name of Google’s gen AI. It’s not really relevant in the corporate world. I don’t think they are close to whooping OpenAI and Microsoft’s asses.
Veo 3. It released weeks before and is almost up there with Sora 2 for output quality.
As for Microsoft, Copilot is absolute dogshit, whilst the quality of Windows 11 updates have nosedived to the point where Satya Nadella’s claim that the corporation is producing 30% AI generated code may actually be true, based on how much things have broken.
You would hope the corporate collaborators of this fascist regime will one day get their comeuppance. Sadly, of the history of corporate collaborators in Nazi Germany is anything to go by, most likely not much will happen to them or their officers…
Don’t worry, they’ll be punished, and you’ll never hear from them again. For example, have you ever heard of Hugo Boss, Volkswagen, Adidas, Coca-Cola, Ford, Fanta, BMW, Siemens, Bayer, or IBM?
Right. Coke/Fanta, IBM, Hugo Boss, idk how many German automakers, Ford, Chanel, the list goes on. All household names around the world, without the slightest pangs of conscience. If only corporations were legally considered people and could be tried and exec- oh wait, they ARE considered people.
the reason they got away is because the Germans expected the cops to handle the nazi cops. when a more hands on solution would’ve been more expedient
But the Dow.
Get ready forbthe next reddit exodus. Honestly I can’t wait.
Reddit is the new FaceBook. People won’t leave so much as younger people will use the next thing.
Facebook is still around in a somewhat diminished form. I expect Reddit will persist, too.
Reddit is quite literally Facebook these days. I really think most of the userbase right now is the people who started using the Facebook app on their phone thinking that’s what the internet is. Finally after much inertia they’ve ventured over to the reddit app to explore another part of this “internet” thing.
So many users call subreddits “groups” because that’s the colloquialism they brought over from Facebook. They don’t know what to call subreddits. So they fumble around different phrasing. They say things like “this group”, “this reddit”, “this r”. Yet never seem to come around to understanding it’s called subreddit. It’s a sign of how the long standing tradition of new users adopting local culture is no longer a thing. New users come in and ignore everything while doing whatever the fuck. God forbid they start getting mod power after some exodus cause then the subreddit is definitely done for.
Quite frankly it’s full of idiots. Not the usual reddit idiot of past years. Reddit’s current userbase is a whole other beast right now. So many users seemingly never used technology in their life before. They can’t even reply to correct comments. People are posting top level comments instead of replying to the proper one. A concerning amount of people think it’s a flat, time sorted message board. They can’t wrap their head around the technical mechanics of a comment section.
Worst of all they have zero internet literacy. Zero idea of internet lore. It’s like talking to my grandparents about technology. They have no idea about anything.
Nobody can speak or understand when I reference internet history either. Pretty rare to find anyone anymore that can reply knowing what I’m talking about when making historical internet references that any adult should be able to know about.
A concerning trend I’ve noticed is that often it will be a right wing troll that comes in to lie whenever mentioning their sordid history of right wing hate and violence on the internet. Must be one of the troll farms that actively flood the zone with shit. For some reason people are so eager to believe the lies. This rant is kind of going off topic now anyways.
Oh yeah and seemingly a lot of people are dictating their reddit replies. That’s just bizarre to me but okay. I guess it makes sense why internet posting has changed so much. In particular, walls of text (such as this) aren’t common anymore. Nobody does brain dumps anymore. Because to them, this reply would be said out loud into my phone like some lunatic instead of typing out a string of thoughts real quick.
Honestly. i think Facebook only still exists because of Marketplace.
Don’t wish for that. The more mainstream Lemmy becomes, the more it’ll become a target for the regime’s surveillance apparatus.
Just installed Blorp and created this account.
Been meaning too, but my 3rd party app just became useless because of their API BS, so there’s that too.
I never even heard of Blorp.
That’s what makes this piece of the internet so cool.
I really liked the name.
It’s missing a bunch of basic stuff though, ATM.
Doesn’t even have a file access permission option to save pictures, but it appears to save when you click Download. Just does nothing. Have to click Share and ‘save with a file app’ or ‘copy to folder’ or whatever instead
A few missing features aside, it does work.
Blorp dev here. Are you using Blorp on web, iOS, or Android? I would love to sort out the saving image issue.
What is “Blorp”?
Welcome to the Fediverse
They still have 3rd party Reddit apps? And they fucked them on API use again? lol
They didn’t officially, apart from RedReader for accessibility reasons. But you could unofficially use some of the old apps with some minor hacks I think. Maybe they clamped down on it again.
I think all the people that are going to leave have left. I don’t see that many people griping about anything anymore. (I browse /r/all and I mod a couple of local subreddits, but otherwise don’t participate much anymore)
If you are a mod, then that’s the most kind of participating my guy
I used to be a mod of default subreddits, “my guy”. I’m also the ‘father’ of /r/nottheonion - it was abandoned years ago and I did a reddit request and got it and built it up to 20k subs, brought on a team of mods, and when we were around 200k subs, decided to step away as my vision conflicted with the rest of the mods, and I thought they were doing a good job, so I stepped down.
I used to hang out with the reddit admins in IRC back in the day.
So compared to that, “my guy”, my participation is minimal.
Would love for your mod experience to come over here!
There’s a lot of growth and community organization we need at Lemmy!
I’m giving Lemmi another try recently, not sure I’m committed yet, and I wouldn’t want to volunteer until then. If I’m still here in a couple of weeks, though, it means my brain has decided to stick around. :) I do like it here, it was just that reddit’s endless /r/all kept me going back last time I tried Lemmy.
Well, let me ask: My goal as moderator has always been to facilitate the community’s desires on how it should work, so I’m not worried about fitting in on that side of things, but how does Lemmy (or your particular instance) feel about the balance between “free speech” and hate speech / bigotry? I ask because I certainly haven’t noticed any bigotry around, which is nice, but that’s what I’m most interested in as a mod: Seeking out spam, off-topic, and bigotry and eliminating that; stepping in when people make personal attacks on each other to shut that down; but otherwise letting the community decide what content they want.
I think they were questioning your “otherwise don’t participate much” comment.
What did you think they were saying?
Seems like you responded to the wrong person
I’ve noticed Reddit comments are slowly but surely getting outnumbered with ICE sympathizer comments.
Any video I saw of the high school kid punching the ICE instigator had thousands of comments that are Pro-ICE. They are typically aggressive and taunting. The amount of bot posts and comments are ridiculous too.
Are there boy commentors on Lemmy?
I just migrated, don’t really know all the ins and outs yet.
Most that hit Lemmy are pretty damn obvious and get banned quickly by mods and instance admins.
So far the slightly more complex reddit style ones haven’t been turned on us yet. Probably don’t think the smaller userbase is worth the effort.
I suspect these more advanced Reddit bots are given some kind of special access via private APIs or other backend integration from the Reddit staff / devs themselves.
Which they won’t get here. Of course, the whole thing is open source, so they could modify that as needed and run it on their own instances. Of course, those instances would then be easy to spot and defederate. And on and on.
Sometimes I think there are provacateurs on here, saying we should do something about so and so and so forth. Trying to do the old FBI trick of creating terrorism where there isn’t any.
I totally agree. Any overt suggestion that any US citizen should take up arms against the gov is an automatic red flag to me. FBI? Maybe. Russian Incitement? Maybe. I dunno who, but I don’t believe it’s just some dude from Sweden suggesting it.
PSA Time: Also, if you’re considering anything like that, please call a mental crisis helpline immediately. Those are not healthy thoughts, and you may be a danger to yourself and others.
Don’t forget get all the anti Kamala “leftists” during the election.
I voted for her, but fuck Kamala Harris. Establishment Democrat who was basically a Republican. Why would I want to vote for her?
Kamala Harris is the reason why Donald Trump is president. She represents more of what Americans don’t need right now. Do nothing Dems who won’t help us. We need more Bernies, AOC, and Zohrans.
But not Lemmy right… right?
lol Fuck ICE, they will get what’s coming once midterms happen. Especially those that have hurt or murdered people.
All votes and comments are publicly accessible, something worth keeping in mind when sharing here.
lol yeah I know. I don’t post anything I wouldn’t want read in a court
At this rate midterms are gonna be as Fair and Balanced™ as a Fox News bulletin.
yeah… I know but I’m trying to build up hope that real changes and consequences will come to this regime, which may prompt people to take more action to bring that future into existence. Ya know, like Oprah’s The Secret
It’s gonna take a whole lot more than manifesting and positive affirmations to unfuck this reality.
I wanna say lemmy is to small for them to care right now. They got enough to monitor with those 3 alone. Definitely one day though.
They’re here, they’re just on shifts and are approximately 7-30 accounts, depending on time. Hopefully, it stays around that.
Even if one of the servers does this, good luck getting all the servers to cooperate.
Nothing is going to happen to them come midterms. I’ll only believe something good can happen in this country after it happens.
I’m trying to manifest it like Oprah would’ve wanted.
She’d also want to platform people like Mehmet Oz (who hasn’t been a doctor since several years before he ran for Senate), Dr Phil, and John of God.
So maybe don’t fall for her bullshit 🤷
DO YOU DARE insult OPRAH
That’s where the internet is in 2026 sadly
Yeah, I get MUCH more use out of that one than I’d prefer lol
